the junketeer

i've gotten pretty much out of focus the past couple of weeks, and it's not from the mixology bucket of my portfolio career. i think i'm getting a bit addicted to the hunt. on tuesday, i took a little road trip to topeka with a couple of friends to check out thrift stores there, wednesday i spent going to my favorite thrift stores in kansas city (in one instance, a couple of times after i googled up some answers i needed), and on friday, i hit the t.n.t. sale at st. theresa's, two estate sales, two garage sales (if two card tables and a stack of sheets counts as a garage sale--otherwise, just one garage sale), then back to one of the finer local thrift stores. where i found out that on sundays, everything with a certain color tag is sold for 25 cents. furniture included. not that i'm looking for furniture. but i am looking for the goods to make aprons for my etsy store. so, even though sunday is this week, not last week, i'm going to count my sunday trip there within in this week's junkets. get it, junkets. crap. see. i'm not altogether capable. it's starting to worry me, actually. because junket really means 1. a dish of sweetened and flavored curds of milk, often served with fruit, and 2. informal, an extravagant trip or celebration, in particular one enjoyed by a government official at public expense. and a junketeer, by extension, is not someone who junks for a living, but one who enjoys the benefits of a junket. i actually wouldn't mind an extravagant trip or celebration right about now.

in the meantime, here's some stuff for you to identify. send me your pricing strategy for each, and we can talk about being partners.